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Creators Profile
Zhuwei Lei
China
biography
Zhuwei Lu was born in a suburb of Shanghai, China. After graduating from high school, she went to
college in Wuhan to learn the traditional Chinese art of lacquer. After college, she chose to pursue
her dream of becoming a jewelry designer, and she came to the United States to study jewelry
design at the Savannah College of Art and Design.
The new world gave her a broader mind and she learned a lot of different and interesting
techniques such as metal casting, enameling, stone setting, the most intriguing technique for her is
electroforming, a technique she was attracted to because it transforms the intangible into the
tangible and grows a very interesting texture, and she gradually came up with her own philosophy
of jewelry design through trial and error
Creator's Perspective
Every person in the world has suffered their own traumatic experience, either slight or severe.
Eventually, most will find their own way to reconcile and move on. However, reconciliation is a
process.
Creating jewelry serves as a way for me to face and make peace with the fears that stem from past
traumas. This process creates wearable objects that hold the unique ability to bridge connections
between myself, the wearer, and the observer. I use a special method called electroforming in my
jewelry studio practice. This technique helps me confront my own fears and allows me to share my
journey of overcoming these fears with others who may have gone through similar experiences.
This series aims to inspire those who have been affected by trauma to bravely confront their
wounds and reconcile with them.
